FIA WEC: Audi takes pole at Silverstone

Andre Lotterer, Marcel Fassler and Benoit Treluyer will start from the pole position in the 6 Hours of Silverstone, the season-opening race of the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship. The experienced crew of the #7 Audi Sport’s R18 breaks the Porsche’s run of eleven pole positions in a row. To make things better, Audi sweeps the front row after Loic Duval and Lucas di Grassi made a second-fastest lap time around famous British circuit.

LMP2 class pole was taken by Rene Rast and Roman Rusinov in G-Drive Oreca-Nissan. The #31Ligier of Extreme Speed Motorsports will start second, ahead of similar #43 car of the RGR Sport by Morand. Davide Rigon and Sam Bird took the GTE Pro pole position with #71 AF Corse Ferrari 488. Fourth-fastest among all GT cars was Porsche 911 RSR of Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing and the team took GTE Am pole position.